Interlude: Songs to Live By

I am in the car, and the highway slides by around me with the steady, mind-numbing drone of the not-quite-rush-hour traffic to take my mind to other places. And suddenly, even though there's loud industrial music blaring on my car stereo, in the back of my head I'm hearing my gorgeously androgynous friend singing to me on a CD I think he gave me once upon a long ago. I don't remember much about the rest of the songs, but that one stood out and I played it over and over and over, unimpressed with the original version and loving the melodic accoustic cover. I think it was from a TV show, but now it's echoing in my head...

Let me rest in peace
Let me get some sleep
Let me take my love and bury it
In a hole six feet deep
I can lay my body down
But I can't find my sweet release
So let me rest in peace...

And now I know his second song. The first one is for happiness, the second for the breakup, and this is his because he won't let it go, won't let it die. Someday, when I make this soundtrack to my life, this will be the end of the chapter with his name on it, and when I fling this CD into the ocean it will resonate with every ounce of feeling I can put into that one, last, line. Suddenly I am at peace with the idea, and the world returns around me once more. Maybe someday, I'll share the track listing.